Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons Volume 10; Agriculture and Corn Trade; [1] (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...quality of land, they cannot do so within thirty-three per cent or one-third; but that on very poor land they cannot pay their rent at'alli I do not know how it is possible to be paid at the present price of produce. Does Wot the reluctance? off the part of the land-owner to reduce the amount Of his nominal income, when he is frequently loaded with heavy incumbrances) induce him $58. to Mrs to wait too long in admitting a reduction of the rent?--I think I have seen this in E. Wakefield. many instances, and have myself acted upon it. When the bad times as they were 'called, occurred in the year 1814, I recommended to my employers a general foil (5 April.) of rent upon all land let since 1808; and of those estates which have been under my care, where my advice was followed, the rents have been regularly received; and I think if such a fall had not taken place, many of those tenants would now be in a state of insolvency; and in recent instances, where I have been called in and examined large estates where there are long arrears standing upon them, I think they would have been in a very different condition, had a fall been allowed at the period to which I am now speaking. And does not, on the other hand, the reluctance on the part of the tenant to quit a home and the only profession that he is capable of, lead him to submit to demands on the part of the landlord, which do not leave him a fair remuneration for his time and trouble?--I know numerous instances of tenants adhering to the soil on which probably they were born, without the slightest knowledge of the real rent which they ought to pay, and there remaining with the fall of prices, until their whole property has been destroyed and lost. Are there not then practical circumstances, arising from the habits ...